Hope everybody has a Happy Saint Patrick’s Day and may you get a chance to raise a pint of Guinness. (or a shot of Jameson’s)
I used my annual picture of the Fitzpatrick’s celebration as a chance to practice my watercolors. I’d let myself slack off for a while. Happily, I’m finding that I wasn’t quite as rusty as I feared.
Join us next week where Kate wants to ease up the burden of too many public appearances and seeks a similar substitute. Erika is not amused.
Join us next week where Laurel tries to get some answers out of Brian about what he sent Fran and Laurel to Tokyo for.
Of course, the problem with wanting answers is sometimes you just might get some.
Sometimes a meeting seems to go on forever. The department of Nuisances is very aware of this phenomenon. With any luck they’ll manage to keep on topic.
This is really embarrassing. I was so far ahead on the strip’s buffer and paying so much attention to finishing current storylines that I completely forgot about this year’s Martin Luther King Day strip!
So here it is in the blog. This year we’re taking a bit from his Montgomery Bus Boycott speech from 1955. It’s a very good example of his early works. Though I have to admit while his use of repetition works great on the pulpit, loses a little when you read it as text.
I always wish I could do more with Santa Lucia day. It has lots of potential in the form of pictures of a young Kate in full regalia ready to be used for family blackmail. Regrettably, it’s hard to use this without the context of the holiday. And since the Christmas story has usually started by then, I don’t have a chance to do that material.
So let’s go a couple of years ago to see some of those pictures being made. You may not recognize her with her natural hair color and being notably shorter, but that’s Erika behind Kate.
